Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-12
DAKOTA.

next week.
The Watertown br ,om factory Is doing .
thriving business.
Since March 2s7 final proofs have been made
In the Blsmarck land office.
The Cause Of division is being advocated In
Faulk county By Col. Plummer.
w. Grow, OF Lead City, aud &. Leiscber, OF
Canning, have been granted pensions.
Steam heating apparatus is beins put in
the high school building at Aberdeen.
tits predicted that county prohibition will
carry In Clark county by quite q large ma
jority.
The pressed brick company at Ysnkton are
turning out 25.0c0 pressed brick per day by
artesian water power.
Col. Plummer delivered a lecture at Red.
field Thursday night on admission and divis-
ion and local option.
Not q bushel Of wheat can be taken in by
the DeSmet warehouses. Cars cannot be OBJ
tained and every house Is full.
W. r. NCfl., OF Woonsccket, delivered 8
telling temperance lecture in the new X. p
hall st Armour Wednesday nisht.
The jail at Columbia is crowded, not be.
cause Brswn county is not q law.abidisl
community, but because the j.l is very
small.
Reports from Sreardsh are that q good vot,
will be polled In some portions OF the Blacl
Hills and q decided majority will be given 20
division.
A large party will 60 from Aberdeen {
w kovfc~p 20 hasr Tnc. AhI1xx Urk. H..
lance is over 100 miles, but Miss Abbott har
signed . contract not to play within $50 mites
OF that city within a specified time.
A reformed cowboy crank has been tryipa
to gain notorIety by distri outing prohibition
tracts In saloons and being kicked GU, an
boring people generally at Fargo. II he s.
paid for his work the investment was u potI
one.
In chambers at Fargo Saturday, befor,
Judge Mcconnell, was argued the case OF tn,
Territory ex rel w. Hawk VS.. the Northern
Pacific Railroad company on motion to qussi
An alternative writ OF mandamus issued I,
compel the defendant to furnish Hawk car
for the transportation OF wheat at Buffalo
he motion was denied.
Major NJ. G. Culium bought the Huron
Herald, democrat, from K j. Dean, Friday,
and possession was given. The paper will be-
republican hereafter. Dean goes to j 9rauic
county To look after resl estate. He is q pio-
ncer newspaper man Of lowe, AID fornierl
published the Waverly Tribune. He has beer
an editor thirty years. He came to Dakota
dive years ago and has been In Huron threr
years.
William Averill, aged about l6, formerly .
brakeman OF the freight train running be
tween Bookings and Redfeld, has been doing
similar work on the Burlington road the past
month. Thursday Averill fell from a moving
train near Watertow n, was run over and had
both legs mangled, uecessitating am utatlon
just below the knees. Averil's parents live
IN WATERFOWL. His life is despaired Of.
One thousand volumes of the new library at
BroOkipgs college have arrived aud have bcea
plsc Il in the library room, and 81 900 worth
Of philosophical apparatus has been received
for use In the institution. But few people who
have not baen here realize what "A fac lot o
buildings have been built, and VIVA, q golden
opportunity is offered to obtain a good ecu
cation.
OAe evening about lee persons called a.
the Methodist Episcopal parsonage at Water
town to lay their respects to Rev. w. Fl
: ll.ck aud mother, ere they departed for
Aberdeen. Gov. a. G. Meliette presented
Mr.. Selleck with a handso me gold watch on
behalf of his Watertown friends aud admirers
The ladies' presented Mrs. Selleck with Il
plush album and hands ONE tea set. The
speeches were short and appro pirate.
X. f. Mccormack, formerly OF Rock valley
has just completed the largest barn ia Hyde
county. 1t is on his farm seven miles north
Of Htghmorc, "a 100 feet long aud forty feet
wide, with a monstrous deck for hay. Added
to it are the finest water privileges anywhere
His farm Is on a range road that runs over a
tong bridge within 100 feet Of his Darn and
over a creek that supplies him with water for
his numerous ponds.
II is charged by papers In the vicinity of the
indemnity lands that land attorneys were
asgely responsible for the rush 70 the IN
roved farms. These gentlemen went o"er
tie region presiding to the uasophisticatfd
the doc rlne OF cultivated far ms for those VITO
would take them. all for the fee Of sea. One
If these is credited with having secured
enough OF the credulous ippocents TO put
81 600 In his pocket. No attorney really be-
iisves that the land VIII be held by the squat
tiers.
Nellie King, who has become notorious IN
central Dakota during the past few months
under he guise of a female detective Of the
Northwes, Dh;e tive agency, OF minneapolis,
was arrested by Sheriff. Cherry, near Apdover,
and taEea To Groton, where the charge ~ en-
bezz . ment aweits her. She obtained u team
at Groton recently and has spent the past
week In driving around central Dakota. A
petition was given the county commissioners
TO have an examination given her on tbs
charge OF insanity.
During the past week or more the v .nkton
division Of the u lwaukee road has been
gork- to its fullest capacity In the move
ment o. freight. The accumulation OF large
quantities Of freight at all points along the
line has forced he company to double the
usu,lnuuber OF trains, and In maLy CAGES
send out double headers In order to relieve
the pressing demand OF shippers. This shows
that the volume II tri dc this fall Is far IN
excess Of any previous year, aud is unmis-
a A.